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Prevention First Wins Acclaim

NARAL Pro-Choice America's work to reshape the debate on reproductive rights and protect women's access to safe, legal abortion has gained significant attention.  We have worked with federal and state lawmakers to advance prevention-based legislative initiatives, and other reproductive rights group have adopted this framework.

The American Prospect described NARAL Pro-Choice America's approach to the debate on choice as "a cunning strategy" that allows "pro-choice advocates to define the terms of the debate." Nationally syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman wrote that "after years of playing defense, NARAL has gone on the offense."

The Detroit News described Nancy Keenan, under whose leadership Prevention First started, as both "forthright and politically savvy," noting that she, among other pro-choice leaders, is responsible for "honing a message about American values of personal responsibility, freedom and privacy" defined as "a new stance and a realistic one."

See other examples of prevention-related media coverage and commentary below:

"[P]ro-choice leaders like Keenan, who is at once forthright and politically savvy, are honing a message about American values of personal responsibility, freedom, and privacy. It's a new stance and a realistic one."
Laura Berman, "Michigan rally shows abortion rights camp faces an uphill battle," Detroit News, April 25, 2006

"And we believe that, while disagreeing, we can work together to find common ground. We believe that it is necessary for all Americans to join together and embrace policies that will reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, decrease abortions and improve access to women's health care."

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"Our approach gives Americans on both sides of the abortion debate the opportunity to join together — as we have done — in the common goals of preventing unintended pregnancies, reducing abortions and supporting women and children's health and well-being."
Sens. Harry Reid and Hillary Rodham Clinton, "Abortion debate shuns prevention," The Times Union, April 18, 2006

"Indeed, the timing is perfect for a challenge to anti-abortion groups: If you want to decrease the number of abortions in this country, join us in a high-profile campaign to increase contraceptive use."
Cynthia Tucker, "Contraception the best truce in abortion war," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, January 22, 2006

"After years of playing defense, NARAL Pro-Choice America has gone on the offense."
Ellen Goodman, "Prosecution or prevention?," Washington Post Writers Group, March 16, 2005

"[P]ro-choice abortion activists [are] getting smarter about their strategy."
Andrew Sullivan, "The Case for Compromise on Abortion: How the pro-choice side is wielding a principle that's tough to argue with," TIME, March 7, 2005

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